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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

1950–

Greek-born Arianna Huffington is best known as the founder of leading news website the Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global. Her remarkable vision and business successes have earned her placings in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women.

Arianna Huffington was born Ariadne-Anna Stasinopoulou in Athens, where she was raised in a one-bedroom apartment. She studied economics at Cambridge University, becoming the third female president of the Cambridge Union. In 1974, aged just 24, she wrote ...

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